“He knows the last three games were not perfect, but he needs the games. He needs the experience in games to feel what is good and what is wrong. This is the perfect example. The start was not good, but we came back.”

The Klopp factor clearly can only have so much effect. Liverpool do not have the same quality of players which took Borussia Dortmund to two Bundesliga titles as well as a final in the Champions League. But Klopp is getting better performances out of players. Notably, Coutinho, but also Mamadou Sakho, who was outstanding in defence.

If only Klopp can do the same with Alberto Moreno as the Spain left-back switched off on Ramires’s early opener, before Coutinho’s double and sub Christian Benteke’s late clincher completed a ­remarkable fightback.

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And so impressive was ­Liverpool’s win, that it drew questions about whether Klopp could lead them into the top four – which they trail by four points right now.

“I can’t believe that England is so impatient,” added Klopp, as he looked across the tunnel to see ref Mark Clattenburg and his officials leaving.

“They are asking me about the top four,” Klopp said to Clattenburg. The referee immediately replied: “Welcome to England.”

But Klopp said it was way too early to make predictions even if the signs are looking very good for Liverpool.

The German said: “We have to improve ­everything and then we can talk about where we will be in the table but, in November, we cannot talk.”